Animal Farm WebQuest

History and Biography

Animal
Farm
Webquest

An
Online Scavenger Hunt

Directions: Please
use the suggested links to find answers to each of the questions below. Be
sure to paraphrase
(not copy) the answers/information you find on the internet.Also, as
you skim these sources, see if you find parallels to events in Animal Farm.

Click on “Russian
Revolution (1917)” and skim the opening blurb and “Background”—stop at
“Political Issues.”

Who was the Czar
(or Tsar) of Russia before the Russian Revolution (and during World War I)?

What became of
this Czar and his family during/after the Revolution?

Under the
“Contents” box click on “February Revolution” and skim “long-term causes”,
“short-term causes” and “course.”

What happened
during the February Revolution of 1917 (first phase of the Russian Revolution)?

Go back to the
“Russian Revolution” page and select “October Revolution”

What happened
during the October Revolution of 1917 (second phase of the Russian
Revolution)? Read the opening info and “outcomes.”

Who were the
Bolsheviks? Click on the link from “October Revolution” page.

Follow the
“Vladimir Lenin” link from the Bolshevik page and from “Contents” select “Head
of Soviet state” (read first two paragraphs around the quote); then select the
“Russian communist party and civil war” link (read the first two paragraphs);
finally, select the “Leninism” link

Who was Vladimir
Lenin, and what were the major ideas of “Leninism”?

From the
information in “Russian communist party and civil war,” what event in Animal
Farm
most resembles the Red Army’s defeat of the allied White Army?